It's a gorgeous low pressure system!
Years ago, I can’t remember how many, a brash, talented, kinetic crew of Brazilians rose to the top of the World Surf League née Association of Surfing Professionals rankings and threatened years of domination. A very much younger Gabriel Medina won first followed by Adriano de Souza and it was going to be years and years and years of Order and Progress with nary a stars n bars or southern cross to be seen.
Then John John won and people forgot all about the “Brazilian Storm.”
But let us look at the class of 2018 Championship Tour rookies. Let us carefully examine.
-Jesse Mendes from Guarujá, São Paulo, Brazil
-Tomas Hermes from Florianopolis, Brazil
-Yago Dora from Curitiba, Brazil
-Willian Cardoso from Florianopolis, Brazil
-Wade Carmichael from Avoca Beach, Australia
-Griffin Colapinto from San Clemente, California
I am not good at math but that looks to me like 2/3 of the fresh faces hail from down under North America and I feel Jesse Mendes and Yago Dora will actually soar, joining Filipe and Gabriel in the perpetual top ten very soon. My personal favorite of this crew is Tomas Hermes. He seems very chic. Very exclusive. Getting back to my point, though, if 2/3 of the incoming rookies are Brazilian this year, and 2/3 are next year and 2/3 are the year after that then the tour will officially be 2/3 Brazilian.
The forecast for a “Brazilian storm” may have been oversold but it sure does look like we are on the front end of a low pressure system sure to bring clouds, with the possibility of drizzle, for years and years and years.
Do you like inclement weather? Are you excited or are you racist?
Don’t overdo that braz’ hype: If 50% + of the events are in waves> 6 ft, most Brazilians will fade away
Then 2/3 of the tour should be held in Brazil. Also I really think Brazil need to be penalised for producing too many world class surfers. If there’s no consequences they’ll just keep on doing it!
Clearly more negative impacts as a result of global warming!!
Of the top 100 in the QS…… 37% Brazil, 18% Australia, 13% USA, 12% Europe, 11% Hawaii, 6% Asia, 3% SA ……and that’s pretty much the numbers we’re seeing translate to CT qualification. The Brazilian government started putting up the cash and working with the private sector to cough up cash to host higher point QS events there years ago, and this meant Brazilians didn’t have to travel as far to rack up points, promoted the sport in the nation at a grass roots level etc etc… Plus look at the sponsors that Brazilian surfers get – real estate agents, construction companies, etc. They’re not just relying on ‘surf companies’ to get them around the world nowadays.
fair enough, but there is absolutely no base. Weak or no state championships, no leagues, 0 support for young surfers, the list goes on. 15-20 years down the road I guarantee there’ll be few, if any, Brazilians in the top ranks.
Then we will be striking up a conversation over the rise of China
Feel obliged again to mention again how completely laughable it is that keanu got bumped onto the tour because he is Hawaiian. The tour needs Zeke, but keanu over some of the dudes who just missed the cut? Womp womp wommmmp.
he worked his guts out on the QS , and ground his way back in, love or hate him , you have to admire his work ethic.
who are the guys who just missed the cut , and why?
Worked his guts out on the QS? You mean he can surf 2-foot slop better than everyone else cause he is 5 feet tall.
yeah that’s the system , what are you going to do about shit surf ?
Ah the old size matters, how about he beat JJF last year in the French CT event , ah that’s not bad !!
Michael February missed out by just a bit at this stage. Big pity.
ah but the WSL/KS pool is where the USA dream of MAGA!
For all y’all knuckle draggers…
It’s pronounced “air mezzzzz”
Wait… you talking about that statue dude or Chas’ favorite brand of dress shoes?
Both. Someone needs to class this joint up.
I am racist. I think the Chinese make great food,black people created rock and roll and those damn Mexicans released the scourge known as “taco Tuesday” thrust on to us like cinco de mayo,I’m not a huge fan of day drinking and delicious carne asada tacos and that damn al pastor is going to get somebody killed,god help yourself if you ever get a torta or chicken and waffles. Your supposed to be eating plain potatoes!
Been to China a couple of times and if you want to experience racism, go there. It was quite a head turner!
Well yeah everybody could see your head turn. That whole country is like 4’7″.
shit you should try Japan and the USA, and parts of Australia are like the Deliverance boys!
I know, right? Me, (6’7″, blonde wearing red t-shirt), striding purposefully through downtown Hong Kong, getting relentlessly bumped in to. Ask my local friend what’s going on! He says “You’re gwalo*, they can’t see you…”
*foreigner
Translation is actually “foreign devil”. Heard it over and over again 🙂
India. they hold the world record for most racist race hands down. They will still publicly decry blacks as ‘subhuman’ it’s heavy.
It depends if they get chlamydia or not. Turns a full steaming stream into a dribble on the double, accompanied by an avOIance of going big. Safe sex – Brazilian peeps – and the surf world is your oyster
*This message brought to you by one of your non-racist lovers*
… Ohhhhhh, you wrote “drizzle.” My bad.
I will take my prize now, Jen See.
hiiiiii as long as there’s hot choccy waiting for me sure you can have your prize
I’m not racist, but I do hate poolies.
know what a Toolie is?
Ha! Now i do! When TV gets their Webber Pool up and running, don’t think for one second that Toolies won’t expand their scope of operation.
ha is there a hidden toolie in all of us ?
Better to be Toolie than Poolie.
Found a pic of that Hermes guy pre-Vans sponsorship. Perhaps to Iceland or a similarly cold locale:
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looks like he just got out of the surf and suffering shrivelitis!
Freeze the balls off a brass (or marble) monkey, Iceland would.
It’s the style of the time. Greeks thought that small prongs were attractive and big dicks were only for ‘old men and savages’ The bigger your foreskin the more valued you were as a lover too apparently.
This sort of educative stuff explains why I never made it as a Greek life model.
Are you sure that is not a picture of Iggy Pop – I read here and heard from Occy that he likes to walk around nude much of the time. Sounds like a perfect cross over guy to partner with on a design for a line of Billabong boardies.
Iggy Pop is my new nickname for Toledo.
What would the dark handsome Duke Kahanamoku surfing genius think of other dark handsome surfing geniuses spawned from his legacy more than a century ago ?
He would smile and mutter “Fucking haoles” under his breath
he might even bust down a door , to convey his mutterings!
Chic and exclusive? Are you describing him bathed in glorious golden afternoon sun or his unpocketed shaka?
this brazilian drizzle sounds arousing.
You dirty dog. Would you recommend Pyzel for people who need a libido boost?
yes , we have been waiting for the results of the Ghost shaped Pyzel , and is it , well, arousing?
oh I know John Pyzel never got within a thousand miles of this board.
I watched a 55 year old overweight teacher paddle out at our local sunset lookalike, 8 to 10 foot Hawaiian. He somehow made a dry hair paddle out and started going on and on about his new 6’8 ghost. I was riding a 9’0 gun and just getting into super fast drops. He proceeded to airdrop into a 6 foot inside ledge and literally pulled in like John John at 55 and 260 pounds. I decided right then that there is something to that ghost shape. Seriously.
That’s a great short story!
wow do you think that a better designed surfboard , could improve your surfing , I mean if you had a swapped boards with him , you too could have airdrop , and surf like JJF?
I don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about this ‘Sunset lookalike’ wave here. No such thing.
I just want one sentence from a WSL commentator about a Brazilian to not contain the word passionate.
Only if joe doesn’t add Griffin to his pushing the progressive element list stalwarts kandino and Lakey Son of Peter.
What? You don’t enjoy lazily drawn stereotypes based on nationality? Shame on you!
I just wish they knew more words
They’re surfers…
Did someone say lazy Stereotypes?
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Griffin Colapinto/ Howdy Doody
And also Kaipo Guerrero….a bit ridiculous…the effort in pronouncing properly the names of the brazillian contestants was kind of weird and unneccesary during the sunset’s final day….
Suddenly I have realized Arnold’s surname sounds also funny when written properly: shhhh-fart-zen-eagerr?!
Don’t blame Kaipo, that’s somehow Madonna’s fault.
It’s just short for sore loser or fucktard usually (rash generalisation), not sure why they don’t just tell it like it is?
Stab will right an article about this starting “we are not racists” and then will cut straight to a jab about how Jesse Mendes and yago need to work on their styles so we can all like them. They will never mention style in an article about say Wade Carmichael or pat gudaskus..
we’re in the eye of the mist.
“Are you excited or are you racist?”
Gold, fellow ellipses junkie… let’s see how many “I’m not racist, but…” type responses you get…
P.S. I want 10 Gabby World Titles, if only for Slater’s brain to fully melt…
What do you think happens to Slater’s brain when that happens? Does he start building a Surf Ranch on the moon right now?
He becomes so enraged by the inevitable articles to be written claiming Medina as the best ever that his brain literally melts and runs out his nose. The drippings will be collected by Eddie Vedder and donated to the California Surf Museum in Oceanside to be displayed. Knowing this, he has already authorized construction on Chōnglàng Mùchǎng, a 1000 yard version of Teahupoo, near Shanghai.
Mars, I think. He can hang with that Elon bro and his red car and surf all day.
He’ll build a freshwater Surf Ranch on a massive barge anchored to the sea floor, 120 yards outside Lowers. He’ll call it Lower Trollers and successfully petition to have San Clemente renamed South Lemoore.
“I’m not racist, but” because CT surfers are no longer allowed to have personalities and rivalries seem absent, I’m having trouble telling the nationalities apart and coming up with any reason to care about who beats who.
I want 10 Yago titles. I love that guy!
ha I want 3 Toledo’s , 2 Yagos , and a Medina with a pear from a pear tree!
I am concerned though that when JJF retires at the end of next year , will there only be Brazilians with a sprinkling of Europeans ,americans and a token Aussie or two..to make up the numbers !
Will that make the WSL the equivalent of the World Series baseball?
what’s baseball ? , imagine all the $m’s being won by our South American Brothers, able to support their 3rd world countries , this could become the great white hope for humanity by allowing only Africans/South Americans to compete , now there’s a healthy dose of racism mixed with poverty vilification!